Vitrimers: Current research trends and their emerging applications

J Zheng, ZM Png, SH Ng, GX Tham, E Ye, SS Goh… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of recyclable plastics is a key research focus in today's world due to their
environmental issues, and non-renewability concerns. Recently, vitrimeric materials have …

Structure–reactivity–property relationships in covalent adaptable networks

V Zhang, B Kang, JV Accardo… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polymer networks built out of dynamic covalent bonds offer the potential to translate the
control and tunability of chemical reactions to macroscopic physical properties. Under …

Elastic vitrimers: Beyond thermoplastic and thermoset elastomers

J Luo, Z Demchuk, X Zhao, T Saito, M Tian, AP Sokolov… - Matter, 2022 - cell.com
Thermoset elastomers are widely used in industry and frontier research due to their
advantage of mechanical robustness, high thermal/chemical resistance, and good …

Functional epoxy vitrimers and composites

Y Yang, Y Xu, Y Ji, Y Wei - Progress in Materials Science, 2021 - Elsevier
From cars to airplanes, from household appliances to indoor ornaments, from biomedical
devices to factory equipment, epoxy resins have been deeply rooted in modern society. But …

Rheology of vitrimers

F Meng, MO Saed, EM Terentjev - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
We describe the full rheology profile of vitrimers, from small deformation (linear) to large
deformation (non-linear) viscoelastic behaviour, providing concise analytical expressions to …

Polyolefins vitrimers: design principles and applications

M Ahmadi, A Hanifpour, S Ghiassinejad… - Chemistry of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Less than 10% of plastics are recycled worldwide, among which polyolefins, which form two-
thirds of all produced polymers, are the most discarded ones. This stems from the nonpolar …

Suppressing creep and promoting fast reprocessing of vitrimers with reversibly trapped amines

F Van Lijsebetten, K De Bruycker… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We report a straightforward chemical strategy to tackle current challenges of irreversible
deformation in low Tg vitrimers at operating temperature. In particular, vinylogous urethane …

Rheological properties of covalent adaptable networks with 1, 2, 3-triazolium cross-links: the missing link between vitrimers and dissociative networks

A Jourdain, R Asbai, O Anaya, MM Chehimi… - …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Vitrimers, in stringent contrast to dissociative networks, involve associative covalent
exchanges and remain fully cross-linked at all temperatures. However, we have previously …

Biobased transesterification vitrimers

A Kumar, LA Connal - Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid increase in the use of plastics and the related sustainability issues, including the
depletion of global petroleum reserves, have rightly sparked interest in the use of biobased …

Importance of broad temperature windows and multiple rheological approaches for probing viscoelasticity and entropic elasticity in vitrimers

LE Porath, CM Evans - Macromolecules, 2021 - ACS Publications
Model polydimethylsiloxane telechelic vitrimers with dynamic boronic ester bonds were
synthesized to investigate the viscoelastic properties of dynamic networks with extremely …